A kiss is NOT just a kiss. “This Kiss,” for instance, is the new video from Carly Rae Jepsen. And in the clip, which debuted today, Justin Bieber’s Vancouver-based BFF reminds us of a few things.

Things like:

1) “This Kiss” is the jam. Jepsen’s capable of more than “Call Me Maybe,” thank you, though she’s still working on duplicating the chart success of that summertime smash.

2) Carly Rae Jepsen is definitely an ’80s baby, and Cyndi Lauper would be jealous of this video’s costume cupboard.

3) Carly Rae Jepsen is 26 years old, and as such, can party at underground nightclubs. (Don’t let her teen-pop stylings fool you.)

And we all get to hit the club with Jepsen and her pals for this Justin Francis-directed video. It’s a bit of a girls-night-out — when Jepsen isn’t jamming with her band — but then, the pop star spies a certain someone across a crowded warehouse.

“You know you’re just my type,” she sings on verse two. And going off the looks of her co-star, Jepsen’s “type” falls somewhere between Scream-era Matthew Lillard, Jay (sans Silent Bob) and the dude from your jr. high who used to wear Air Walks and skip homeroom to hang behind the dumpsters.

Still, the duo wind up getting wet and wild by the video’s final frames.

Watch “This Kiss” above. Jepsen, who was recently confirmed to play the Grey Cup, is currently on tour with Justin Bieber.